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Aussie Millions Event #10 report
Posted by: James Carter. - Thu, 2009-01-22 16:48
John Tabatabai took down the win in the Aussie Million’s $5,300 Heads-up Final, taking home the AU$100,000 top prize.
In the final, he defeated Alec Torelli after making short work of David Gent in the preliminaries.
The first confrontation of the day was the one between Torelli and Jarred Solomon, the player who made it this far in the tournament in a rather spectacular manner, losing only one game.
Against Torelli however his streak would run out of steam. The first set went Torelli’s way in a rather uncontested manner: he had Solomon with his back against the wall very soon and forced him to go all in an a 6,5o against his K,8 of diamonds. The board bricked out and Torelli took a 1-0 lead in the match-up.
The second game was a more balanced affair. It did go back and forth for a while, before Solomon ran his K,J into Torelli’s A,J and missed the board completely again.
John Tabatabai’s game against David Gent was a rougher affair. The first set went to Tabatabai when he managed to bust one of Gent’s bluffs. Gent bet out on every street holding K,10 on a board of 8,J,4,A,3. Tabatabai promptly called him down with 8,9, an excellent move that gave him a well deserved win in the first set.
The second set went Gent’s way though when he hit a straight on the turn of the final hand. The third match would be the decisive one. Fortunately for him, Tabatabai pretty much tipped the scales in his favor when he took down a big hand on a flush he made on the turn.
Crippled, Gent shoved all in a few hands later on K,3 against Tabatabai’s pocket 4s on a board which failed to improve.
The final match-up of the day saw Tabatabai win two straight sets to confine Torelli to second place overall. Tabatabai’s K,10 improved to a pair of Ks on the board against Torelli’s pocket 8s in the last hand of the first match.
The second match came down to a K,10 of diamonds vs A,7 of hearts matchup between the two, with the board landing only a bunch of blanks again. Torelli took home $60,000 for his second place finish.
